January 2009

Mississippi could receive as much as $637 million in state budget aid plus millions more for highways, bridges and school modernizations. MPB's Lawayne Childrey reports.

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has approved a proposal which would allow fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. MPB’s Phoebe Judge reports.

The Department of Labor announced that unemployment in Mississippi jumped to 7.6 percent in December, above the national average. Lafayette County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, but that may soon change. From Oxford, Cari Gervin reports.

A bill in the state Senate could help provide affordable housing to Mississippians. MPB’s Stephen Koranda reports.

Religious leaders are calling on lawmakers to focus on the most vulnerable members of society. MPB's Lawayne Childrey reports.

Governor Haley Barbour is pushing for changes in a bill before the US Senate to reauthorize a federal health insurance program. MPB's Stephen Koranda reports.

For those who lived through Mississippi’s dark history of segregation, the reality of an African American sworn into office may have seemed far away at one point. That’s why it was so important for a group of seniors from the Gulf Coast to make the trip to Washington to see it with their own eyes. MPB's Phoebe Judge reports on this journey to see history.

Mississippi’s economic turnaround could come later this year.
MPB’s Sandra Knispel reports from the annual Northeast Mississippi Economic Forecast Conference in Tupelo yesterday, which was hosted by the Community Development Foundation.

State government budget cuts have cost Mississippi’s colleges and universities almost 40 Million dollars. MPB’s Stephen Koranda reports on what this could mean to the schools.